I fly out tomorrow (Monday Oct 21) for the nearly 1000 mile delivery trip in
the new research vessel.

Wheatly, Ontario Canada
Lake Erie
Welland Canal
Lake Ontario
Oswego Canal
Erie Canal
Hudson River
Delaware Bay
Delaware Canal
Annapolis, MD
Solomons, MD

I wouldn't normally sign on for such a long trip as passenger/crew but, when
you've designed the boat, it's a different experience.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RVRCpixvid.htm

--
Roger Long

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:22:31 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I fly out tomorrow (Monday Oct 21) for the nearly 1000 mile delivery trip in
the new research vessel.

Wheatly, Ontario Canada
Lake Erie
Welland Canal
Lake Ontario
Oswego Canal
Erie Canal
Hudson River
Delaware Bay
Delaware Canal
Annapolis, MD
Solomons, MD

I wouldn't normally sign on for such a long trip as passenger/crew but, when
you've designed the boat, it's a different experience.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RVRCpixvid.htm

Have a good trip. Are you taking along your SPOT device ?

The Hudson River should be nice this time of year. Bring warm
clothing for Lake Erie and Lake Ontario - colder than coastal Maine
believe it or not. Upstate NY is usually cold and breezy also,
sometimes snows in late October.

You'll be passing through Fulton, my old home town on the Oswego
Canal. We used to stand on the bridge and watch the boats lock through
on the way home from school. There was still a lot of commercial
traffic in the 1950s.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:22:31 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I fly out tomorrow (Monday Oct 21) for the nearly 1000 mile delivery trip
in
the new research vessel.

Wheatly, Ontario Canada
Lake Erie
Welland Canal
Lake Ontario
Oswego Canal
Erie Canal
Hudson River
Delaware Bay
Delaware Canal
Annapolis, MD
Solomons, MD

I wouldn't normally sign on for such a long trip as passenger/crew but,
when
you've designed the boat, it's a different experience.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RVRCpixvid.htm

Have a good trip. Are you taking along your SPOT device ?

The Hudson River should be nice this time of year. Bring warm
clothing for Lake Erie and Lake Ontario - colder than coastal Maine
believe it or not. Upstate NY is usually cold and breezy also,
sometimes snows in late October.

You'll be passing through Fulton, my old home town on the Oswego
Canal. We used to stand on the bridge and watch the boats lock through
on the way home from school. There was still a lot of commercial
traffic in the 1950s.



Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....

Buffalo is cold but it is almost tropical compared to some other
places in upstate NY. I've seen 41 below on one occasion and there
are regions where it goes below zero every night for weeks at a time.
At 41 below the grease was so thick in my car's transmission that it
wanted to take off and go ahead in neutral.

My old home town gets over 200 inches of snow every year. Last
January they got over 100 inches in 10 days. The city of Oswego, 10
miles north at the northern end of the Oswego Canal, is directly on
Lake Ontario. The winter north westerlies are so strong there that
it piles up ice along the shore 30 to 40 feet high at times. It
looks like the artic when that happens.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....

Buffalo is cold but it is almost tropical compared to some other
places in upstate NY. I've seen 41 below on one occasion and there
are regions where it goes below zero every night for weeks at a time.
At 41 below the grease was so thick in my car's transmission that it
wanted to take off and go ahead in neutral.

My old home town gets over 200 inches of snow every year. Last
January they got over 100 inches in 10 days. The city of Oswego, 10
miles north at the northern end of the Oswego Canal, is directly on
Lake Ontario. The winter north westerlies are so strong there that
it piles up ice along the shore 30 to 40 feet high at times. It
looks like the artic when that happens.





I wondered why there were so many Oswego tourists in Buffalo in
mid-February!


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:33:32 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....

Buffalo is cold but it is almost tropical compared to some other
places in upstate NY. I've seen 41 below on one occasion and there
are regions where it goes below zero every night for weeks at a time.
At 41 below the grease was so thick in my car's transmission that it
wanted to take off and go ahead in neutral.

My old home town gets over 200 inches of snow every year. Last
January they got over 100 inches in 10 days. The city of Oswego, 10
miles north at the northern end of the Oswego Canal, is directly on
Lake Ontario. The winter north westerlies are so strong there that
it piles up ice along the shore 30 to 40 feet high at times. It
looks like the artic when that happens.

Figures you moved to Florida.
We had about 90 inches in Chicago one year - '78-'79 - and it was a
constant battle getting to work. Shoveling all the time.
Hard to imagine all that snow every winter.
But a paradise for those who love winter sports I guess.
When I was kid living near the lake I saw that arctic-like ice piled
up like that once. We somehow had the sense not to venture too
far. It was like being on a glacier, with crevasses and high
overhangs. Must have been an oddity of real cold weather and
easterlies that caused it.

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:33:32 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:09 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....

Buffalo is cold but it is almost tropical compared to some other
places in upstate NY. I've seen 41 below on one occasion and there
are regions where it goes below zero every night for weeks at a time.
At 41 below the grease was so thick in my car's transmission that it
wanted to take off and go ahead in neutral.

My old home town gets over 200 inches of snow every year. Last
January they got over 100 inches in 10 days. The city of Oswego, 10
miles north at the northern end of the Oswego Canal, is directly on
Lake Ontario. The winter north westerlies are so strong there that
it piles up ice along the shore 30 to 40 feet high at times. It
looks like the artic when that happens.

Figures you moved to Florida.
We had about 90 inches in Chicago one year - '78-'79 - and it was a
constant battle getting to work. Shoveling all the time.
Hard to imagine all that snow every winter.
But a paradise for those who love winter sports I guess.
When I was kid living near the lake I saw that arctic-like ice piled
up like that once. We somehow had the sense not to venture too
far. It was like being on a glacier, with crevasses and high
overhangs. Must have been an oddity of real cold weather and
easterlies that caused it.

--Vic


Yup...no country for girliemen!

Capt. JG wrote:



Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the
coldest....

Try Winnipeg. Imagine taking Chicago and moving it into a deep
freeze,,,wind, cold, snow.....you get the idea...


Cheers
Martin

"Wayne.B" wrote

When this project started, I wan't looking forward to having to go "way up
north" to cold Canada from Maine which is plenty far enough towards the
north pole. I quickly learned that I was actually going south, almost to
the latitude of Cape Cod. I didn't see snow once at the shipyard. The lake
effect stuff all piles up on the other side of the lake. It was beautifully
warm and pleasant on the sea trials. The warmth of the shallow lake water
could be clearly felt.

I never went to the yard when it wasn't noticably warmer and pleasanter than
home in Maine.

In any event, I'll be spending most of the lake portion of the trip inside.
Wind and spray at 18 knots doesn't entice one to spend much time on deck.
The lake Erie portion will be at night so as to be at the Welland canal
entrance in the morning and we may do the Lake Ontario segment at night as
well. After that, we'll be inland and heading south so I'm not going to
load up with too much heavy clothing.

I'm taking the SPOT but leaving it up to the university whether they want to
publicize the new page address as it is their boat. Check this page

http://www.umces.edu/vessel/

shortly to be updated to see if they include the link.

--
Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in
:

In any event, I'll be spending most of the lake portion of the trip
inside. Wind and spray at 18 knots doesn't entice one to spend much
time on deck. The lake Erie portion will be at night so as to be at
the Welland canal entrance in the morning and we may do the Lake
Ontario segment at night as well. After that, we'll be inland and
heading south so I'm not going to load up with too much heavy
clothing.


I can easily see you're all broken up over being forced to go at
gunpoint....(c;

They figured it was easier to take you along than to cut the shackles
between you and the bridge chairs....hee he..

I didn't see any reports on the university's webpages about you having to
be dragged aboard kicking and screaming about being Shanghai'd. They
probably just didn't report it.....

These are marine biologists, remember. They usually eat the "experiments"
on the mess decks if they catch any big ones....

To make it look "official", our DNR scientists measure the length of the
Mahi Mahi before sending them down to be cleaned....(c;